And the sound source is so much closer to your ears which affects the perception of frequencies… And these are just a few point which NX tries to compensate. The stereo width is not in front of you, it is in your head. Monitoring with headphones is really a different thing compared to monitoring with loudspeakers. To get the perfect result you can even measure your head and enter the sizes to the plugin. To adjust the feeling as you know it from your usual speaker position, you can use the settings “Room Ambience” and “Speaker Position”. Now this will be the reference spot for head movements. Then click on the “Sweet Spot” button to fix this position. Just sit the way you would in front of your speakers. The next step will be to set up the sweet spot for the app.
So when you turn your head too far away from the camera, it will lose traction. The application tracks your head based on nose and mouth. Nearly every laptop comes with a small camera these days. But when used mobile, this should not be a problem. Could be a problem when used in the studio, because not every desktop display has an inbuilt camera. To calculate the position of your head, which draws off the sound, NX comes with a head tracking app. For most applications the stereo version will do it. You will find several version of the plugin: 5.0, 5.1 and stereo. To affect the whole mix I would recommend to add it to the master bus. It is installed the usual way (in this case Waves Central) and then integrated to a DAW. To realize the idea of a virtual mix room, the guys from Waves developed an application which works like a plugin. With “ NX” Waves has adopted this idea too. Seems to be an interesting application. To solve this problem several companies developed applications in the last years, which simulate a “3D room” while monitoring with headphones. I’m literally not the one who loves producing on headphones and therefore I’m not used to the sound. Additionally there’s the question of monitoring and the only answer is: headphones. I also asked this question myself when doing some production while being not in the studio: The computer should have enough resources for lag-free production and the tools should not be too complex to use. These days I often stumble upon the question which mobile production setup is usable.
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